Much
has been made about NSA spying and bulk data collection of American
citizens, as well as an increasing loss of privacy in the face of the
new digital Big Brother State – but amazingly, few are really aware of
the fact that even the NSA needs working partners in crime to carry out
their assault on American freedoms guaranteed in the US Constitution,
specifically those enshrined in the 4th Amendment.One
such partner in crime appears to be Microsoft Corporation based in
Redmond, near Seattle. Upon further examination, it appears that
Microsoft’s new “operating” (policing) system, Windows 10, has given itself permission to watch your every move through its built-in spying feature.

You have to ask yourself: how out of touch is Microsoft that, in light of the Edward Snowden revelations and the rest too
– that it would have the outright gall to build a back door into its
latest OS and make it a nonnegotiable clause in the customer’s the Terms
and Conditions?

Techworm confirms the brazen move by Gatestown product engineers:“As more and more users are jumping the queue to download the Windows 10 through the Windows Insider Program,
almost all of them have forgotten to check the Privacy Policy and Terms
and Conditions users accept while downloading the Windows 10. If you
study the privacy policy you will be startled at the amount of freedom
you are giving Microsoft to spy on you.”
According to its Terms and Conditions, Microsoft has all but invited itself into your private domain 24/7: “Microsoft
collects information about you, your devices, applications and
networks, and your use of those devices, applications and networks.
Examples of data we collect include your name, email address,
preferences and interests; browsing, search and file history; phone call
and SMS data; device configuration and sensor data; and application
usage.”According the Forbes writer Gordon Kelly, “.. despite offering some options to turn elements of tracking off, core data collection simply cannot be stopped.”
Speaking to PC World,
Microsoft VP Joe Belfiore admitted, “In the cases where we’ve not
provided options, we feel that those things have to do with the health
of the system,” he said.
“In the case of knowing that our system that
we’ve created is crashing, or is having serious performance problems, we
view that as so helpful to the ecosystem and so not an issue of
personal privacy, that today we collect that data so that we make that
experience better for everyone.”
Now you have to ask yourself the question: how tight is Microsoft’s top brass with spy chiefs at the NSA?
Earlier this summer, we learned
how NSA spying relies on AT&T’s “extreme willingness to help”,
which should give us an idea of the scale of corporate collusion with
the NSA.
In the wake of the early Snowden releases, The Guardian laid the foundation to this narrative:
“One slide in the undated PowerPoint presentation, published as part of the Guardian’s NSA Files: Decoded project,
illustrates the number of intelligence reports being generated from
data collected from the companies. In the five weeks from June 5 2010, the period covered by the document,
data from Yahoo generated by far the most reports, followed by
Microsoft and then Google. Between them, the three companies accounted
for more than 2,000 reports in that period – all but a tiny fraction of
the total produced under one of the NSA’s main foreign intelligence
authorities, the Fisa Amendments Act (FAA).”
In addition to all this, you have the issue of whether or not Microsoft has embedded a heavy-handed ‘TPP‘ backdoor access clause in its privacy terms as well. The following was brought to light by a Reddit user recently:

Finally,
we will access, disclose and preserve personal data, including your
content (such as the content of your emails, other private
communications or files in private folders), when we have a good faith
belief that doing so is necessary to:

comply with applicable law or respond to valid legal process, including from law enforcement or other government agencies;

protect
our customers, for example to prevent spam or attempts to defraud users
of the services, or to help prevent the loss of life or serious injury
of anyone;

operate and maintain the
security of our services, including to prevent or stop an attack on our
computer systems or networks; or

protect
the rights or property of Microsoft, including enforcing the terms
governing the use of the services – however, if we receive information
indicating that someone is using our services to traffic in stolen
intellectual or physical property of Microsoft, we will not inspect a
customer’s private content ourselves, but we may refer the matter to law
enforcement.

Yeah I don’t want to give them access to ANY of my hard drives contents. Is there any way to turn this off?”

So, Microsoft has been at it for quite sometime.

Considering
how this company has enjoyed a license to print money since the late
1980’s, you would think that they would be more appreciative of the
millions of customers who have made so many millionaires, and
billionaires in Seattle and beyond. You’d think that Microsoft might
just stand up for the privacy of the little man, right?